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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Urocerus 
  albicornis. 
  (Country 
  gentleman. 
  Sep. 
  9, 
  1897. 
  62:707,00!. 
  

  

  I, 
  10 
  cm) 
  

  

  This 
  saw-fly 
  was 
  received 
  from 
  Carthage, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  where 
  it 
  had 
  been 
  

   taken 
  while 
  ovipositing 
  in 
  newly 
  sawn 
  spruce 
  lumber. 
  Its 
  principal 
  

   features 
  are 
  given 
  together 
  with 
  the 
  manner 
  of 
  oviposition. 
  

  

  [See 
  pages 
  338-40 
  of 
  this 
  report.] 
  

  

  Plague 
  of 
  flies. 
  (Country 
  gentleman. 
  Oct. 
  14, 
  1897. 
  62:806,807, 
  

   col. 
  4, 
  15 
  cm) 
  

  

  A 
  dwelling 
  house 
  in 
  Peekskill, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  is 
  infested 
  with 
  ' 
  house 
  flies,' 
  

   although 
  the 
  stable 
  is 
  1,500 
  feet 
  distant, 
  and 
  ' 
  armies 
  ' 
  have 
  been 
  killed 
  by 
  

   fly-paper 
  and 
  traps. 
  Recommendation 
  is 
  made 
  of 
  screens 
  for 
  windows 
  

   and 
  doors 
  and 
  trapping 
  the 
  few 
  that 
  would 
  evade 
  them. 
  Possibly 
  the 
  

   fly 
  may 
  be 
  the 
  ' 
  cluster-fly,' 
  Pollenia 
  rudis^ 
  which 
  in 
  certain 
  localities 
  has 
  

   the 
  habit 
  of 
  entering 
  houses 
  in 
  the 
  autumn 
  for 
  hibernation. 
  Persian 
  

   insect 
  powder 
  is 
  most 
  effectual 
  for 
  these. 
  

  

  Pine 
  borer. 
  (Country 
  gentleman. 
  Nov. 
  4, 
  1897. 
  62 
  : 
  867, 
  col. 
  2- 
  

   3, 
  4 
  cm) 
  

  

  The 
  operations 
  of 
  ' 
  a 
  large 
  white 
  grub 
  ' 
  found 
  in 
  exuded 
  masses 
  of 
  

   pitch 
  on 
  the 
  lower 
  limbs 
  of 
  a 
  Scotch 
  pine 
  and 
  causing 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  

   the 
  foliage, 
  are 
  described, 
  but 
  without 
  examples 
  of 
  the 
  grubs 
  the 
  

   species 
  can 
  not 
  be 
  named. 
  Its 
  method 
  of 
  running 
  its 
  burrows, 
  as 
  

   given, 
  and 
  its 
  living 
  within 
  the 
  pitch, 
  are 
  quite 
  interesting. 
  

  

  Pine 
  borer. 
  (Country 
  gentleman. 
  Nov. 
  11,1897. 
  62 
  : 
  887,00!, 
  i, 
  11 
  cm) 
  

  

  From 
  examples 
  received, 
  the 
  caterpillars 
  boring 
  pines 
  are 
  identified 
  

   as 
  the 
  larvae 
  of 
  Hnrmojiia 
  pi7ii 
  Kelhcott, 
  an 
  insect 
  closely 
  related 
  to 
  

   the 
  peach 
  borer. 
  It 
  was 
  described 
  in 
  1881, 
  and 
  its 
  operations 
  in 
  three 
  

   counties 
  of 
  this 
  state 
  were 
  observed 
  by 
  Dr 
  Kellicott. 
  A 
  brief 
  account 
  

   of 
  its 
  life-history 
  is 
  given 
  and 
  comment 
  made 
  upon 
  its 
  peculiar 
  boring 
  

   habits. 
  The 
  question 
  is 
  raised 
  whether 
  the 
  insect 
  attacks 
  only 
  sickly 
  

   trees. 
  

  

  Fall 
  canker 
  worm 
  and 
  its 
  eggs. 
  (Country 
  gentleman. 
  Dec. 
  16, 
  1897. 
  

   62 
  : 
  986, 
  c(^l. 
  2-3, 
  29 
  cm) 
  

  

  A 
  cluster 
  of 
  eggs 
  on 
  an 
  apple-twig 
  from 
  Newton, 
  Mass 
  , 
  submitted 
  

   Nov. 
  27 
  for 
  name 
  and 
  information 
  respecting 
  them 
  are 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  

   fall 
  canker-worm, 
  Ajiisopteryx 
  pometaria 
  Harris. 
  The 
  eggs 
  and 
  the 
  

   caterpillars 
  are 
  described. 
  The 
  eggs 
  are 
  deposited 
  in 
  November 
  or 
  

   later 
  in 
  warm 
  days 
  during 
  the 
  winter. 
  They 
  hatch 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  

   when 
  the 
  trees 
  begin 
  to 
  put 
  forth 
  their 
  leaves, 
  and 
  are 
  oftrn 
  found 
  

   associated 
  with 
  the 
  spring 
  canker-worm, 
  Anis<pteryx 
  veniata 
  — 
  which 
  

   they 
  closely 
  resemble. 
  

  

  Spraying 
  with 
  the 
  arsenites 
  as 
  soon 
  as 
  they 
  are 
  seen, 
  is 
  recommended. 
  

  

  